Ibrahim Attah, pensioners disagree on payment of claims’ backlog with N5 billion

Adamawa state Pensioners have disagreed with permanent member 111, Ibrahim Attah that the Adamawa state government released N5 billion to clear its liabilities to the Contributory Pension Scheme.

While briefing Journalists in Yola on Monday, permanent member 111, Ibrahim Attah claimed the Adamawa state government released 1.5 and 3.5 billion naira to clear outstanding pension liability.

However, in sharp disagreement with this claim, the National President, of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Dr Abel O. Afolayan said Adamawa Government’s indebtedness to the CPS is well over N20 billion.

“At no time did the Adamawa state government release 3.5 billion naira at once to settle the backlog, from our records the state government give fifty million naira monthly totalling 36 months which is about 1.8 billion and the recent 1.5 and 1.3 billion naira released by the government.

“If it is not a usurpation of power, I believe the Adamawa pension board has a chairman, how can a permanent member be given the temerity to spew false hold just to please his paymaster? We are calling on the state chairman of the board to set the record straight or we shall hold a press conference to tell the world the real happening.

Afolayan explained: “It is a known fact that the Adamawa state government has consistently under-appropriated for the CPS over the past few years as pension benefits have consistently been treated in instalments as though it is a capital expenditure rather than salary for those who have served their fatherland.”